HeyJaredJust a Girl, Telling Stories
There is truth in fiction - short stories, flash and drabbles
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Green Thumb (opens the original)
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Fall (opens the original)
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She collects leaves in her pocketsFallen from treesRed, yellow and orangeThat rustle and crumblein the confinement of cloth.She yearns to hold summer,sun on smooth skin,salt on her tongue.Suspend —the moon on a wire.Mementos pressed in pagesof books forgottenor never gleanedthe ink washed out.Her pockets linedwith corpses of unborn trees.Dust —a scent almos
Beautiful (opens the original)
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He called me beautiful,and that felt like a scarRigid and out of place -a sally to war.War?Maybe it was a dance,but he tried to leadand I don’t want to go too farin case he leavesor turns like a wolfin the moonlight,gleaming teethand me with my red basket.Beautiful…Like things you put on a shelf<spa
Pyrrhic (opens the original)
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Diversion (opens the original)
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